Stress: Eat The Right Food To Fight Stress

In the modern living of today, we are subjected to stress in one form or another. We have come to accept stress as “ just a part of everyday life”. As a result, we do not normally take it too seriously.

Stress is the body’s normal, healthy response to threat. In a survival situation, the brain tells the body to pump massive amount of 2 types of hormone: epinephrine and cortisol. These hormones channel energy to the muscle, increase blood flow and blood pressure, speed up thinking to help us escape from the threat.

This stress response mechanism helps us to survive danger and then shut down. It is not meant to be switched on 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. But our modern-day living, job demand, recession, traffic is causing the 2 stress hormones to be regularly flowing in our body.

At high levels, epinephrine and cortisol cause damages to the body:

Increased blood pressure, causing damage to the blood vessels and heart muscle, leading to heart and kidney diseases.